Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Damascus:dragged towards revolt -- The minorities and Syria's Revolt -- Lies, half-truths and videos: the media and the uprising -- The gap between state and society -- Revolution through the eyes of the rich and poor -- The uprising and Syria's Youth -- Being foreigner, a resident and a journalist in the revolt -- History, blame, responsibility -- Epilogue: A failed revolt? Syria 2014 |
Summary |
In January 2011 President Bashar al-Assad told the Wall Street Journal that Syria was ""stable"" and immune from revolt. In the months that followed, and as regimes fell in Egypt and Tunisia, thousands of Syrians took to the streets calling for freedom, with many dying at the hands of the regime. In Revolt in Syria: Eye-Witness to the Uprising, Stephen Starr delves deep into the lives of Syrians whose destiny has been shaped by the state for almost fifty years. In conversations with people from all strata of Syrian society, Starr draws together and makes sense of perspectives illustrating why |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 3, 2016) |
Subject |
Starr, Stephen -- Travel -- Syria
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Starr, Stephen fast |
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Protest movements -- Syria -- History -- 21st century
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Political violence -- Syria -- History -- 21st century
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Journalists -- Syria -- Biography
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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RĂ©volution.
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Conflits de pouvoirs.
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Problèmes politiques.
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Guerres.
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Aspects politiques.
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Journalists
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Political violence
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Politics and government
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Protest movements
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Social conditions
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Travel
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War -- Causes
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PROTEST MOVEMENTS.
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POLITICAL VIOLENCE.
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REVOLUTIONS.
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POLITICAL CONDITIONS.
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JOURNALISTS.
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TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
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SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC.
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Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Causes
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Syria -- Politics and government -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002001751
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Syria -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Pays arabes.
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Syrie.
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Syria
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
1849044406 |
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9781849044400 |
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9781849044417 |
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1849044414 |
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